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Help Wanted!

GrowthForce is looking for a Senior Accountant, a Junior Accountant and a Bookkeeping Clerk to join our growing team. Please forward this email to anyone you know who wants to kick start their accounting career at a great place to work.


Upcoming Events

QuickBooks 2010 Webinar

This webinar is a live demo of QuickBooks 2010 focusing on all the new features which are helpful to any QuickBooks user, pro or novice

Taught by GrowthForce President & CEO, Stephen King, CPA*, Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
1 p.m. - 2 p.m. CST


QuickBase Webinar

If you don't yet know Intuit's QuickBase system - you will. It's a web-based tool that integrates with QuickBooks and allows small businesses to deploy applications ranging from CRM to project management, to process automation with an extremely low cost.
QuickBase is quickly becoming one of Intuit's most popular products. This webinar will serve as an introduction to QuickBase, its capabilities, and how you or your clients can use this tool to differentiate and drive efficiencies in your business at a low cost.

Taught by James Cosman, certified QuickBase designer

Next Class
Tues., Mar. 9, 2010

2p.m. - 3p.m. CST


How to Reduce the Risk of Fraud Using QuickBooks Webinar

We all have heard horror stories of small business owners being ripped off by trusted employees or advisors. Unfortunately, privately held businesses are often more vulnerable to internal fraud because of lack of proper accounting controls.

Good news: You can fight workplace fraud. QuickBooks has new, easy-to-use internal control features that can give small business owners the upper hand against fraud. Attend this free, informative Webinar presentation and you'll walk away with simple, preventive measures to use QuickBooks to combat internal theft and fraud. This webinar is for business owners only.

Taught by GrowthForce President & CEO, Stephen King, CPA*, Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor

Tues., March 23rd, 2010
2 p.m. - 3 p.m. CST


QuickBooks Training Class

This day long introduction to the QuickBooks system offers everything a novice user of QuickBooks needs to know to use. You'll learn about creating Lists, Chart of Account, Items, Centers, bank account and balance sheet activities, selling and paying for goods and services, reporting results, tracking time, designing forms and letters.
The cost is just $299 per person. Discounts are available for multiple attendees from one company. Each attendee will receive a comprehensive QB training procedure guide and eight hours of CPE credit.

Taught by GrowthForce Senior Manager of Accounting Systems, Margaret F. Gow, CPA*, Advanced Certified QB Pro Advisor

Tues., April 6th, 2010
8 a.m. - 5 p.m. CST
at Administaff Training Center
19001 Crescent Springs Drive
Kingwood, TX 77339


Association for Accounting Marketing Houston Chapter

Luncheon Topic: How to Turn Your Practice Into a Marketing Machine

Join the Association for Accounting Marketing-Houston Chapter for their next Business Booster Series luncheon. Presenter Lauron Sonnier will share her secrets on how your organization can Think Like a Marketer. You'll learn how to integrate marketing into your normal course of business and maintain that mindset to keep everyone thinking like a marketer.

Speaker: Lauron Sonnier
Tues., Mar. 2, 2010 11:30 – 1pm
Junior League of Houston

Registration Deadline: Monday, March 1st - 11:00 a.m. -*if you have trouble with online registration please contact Kimberly Libucki at klibucki@ahint.com or 856-380-6850.

Questions/More information
Kelly Adams, AAM Houston Chapter President: kadams@bvccpa.com or 713.366.8523

Tuesday, February 23, 2009

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Phishing Alert for QuickBooks Customers

Intuit is receiving reports of individuals receiving fraudulent emails from QuickBooks or QuickBooks Online. The two separate emails ask customers to either download a plug-in to assess their security or download a Digital Certificate. Please delete either of these emails.

As Intuit discovers these fraudulent sites (cyber criminals often use the same email repeatedly, although they change web sites), they take them down. Full details of the phishing email and content can be found here.

As always, if you receive an email message that appears to come from Intuit but that you suspect is a phishing email, please forward it immediately to spoof@intuit.com.

Please visit http://security.intuit.com for additional security information.


Houston's First Quickbooks User Conference

GrowthForce has been chosen by Intuit as one of three organizers of the first ever QuickBooks User Conference. Dubbed "Plug Into the Power of QuickBooks", this conference is a unique opportunity to educate you and your staff on how to unleash the power of the most popular Intuit products and add-ons.

We'll have four tracks: Basic QuickBooks, Advanced QuickBooks, Managing Your Practice and Extending QuickBooks, for users of all levels and industries. Come and learn everything from the newest 2010 features to help your business grow and advanced automation tools you never knew existed.

Make sure to register early, as there will be a series of FREE webinars only available to registrants that will give you a taste of what is to come at the conference.

Registration Details

Registration pricing is $199.00 per person if registered on or before April 2, 2010, $225 after April 2,2010. Friends of GrowthForce are eligible for $25 discount. Register at www.qbookusers.com with ID Code GFCPA to receive this discount. Feel free to share this offer with your clients. They will receive an invite from Intuit but not the discount.

For more information, contact info@qbookusers.com or register at www.qbookusers.com.


Audit Ready or Not

Do you have clients that you dread taking their call? They need assistance you can't provide, preparing their books and work papers for your audit or tax work. GrowthForcecan work quickly to get them tax and audit ready.

Our job is to make sure the books are accurate and critical tax and business issues are flagged for your review. You can then focus on helping your clients proceed through theaudit or in tax planning so they pay as little in taxes as legally possible- no more wasting valuable staff time on clean up for which can't bill at your full rates.

  • We provide bookkeepers and clerks working under the direction of CPAs*
  • We help you provide clients with guidance while maintaining independence
  • Our services and work papers are available over the Internet, allowing us to service clients all over the US and abroad.

If you'd like to read more about how we've helped firms like yours, download our case study on GrowthForce's audit support work for Calvetti, Ferguson & Wagner, P.C. and Reimer, McGuinness & Associates, P.C. *GrowthForce is not a CPA firm.


Recession Busters Column

As part of our constant effort to find ways to help our clients beat the recession, here's an interesting cost-saving suggestion.

Wouldn't it be great if you could very simply analyze actual cell phone usage and optimize your calling plans in a manner that saves average subscribers 22% on their bills.

A recent study by Validas found that 80 percent of wireless subscribers pay more for wireless bills than they should, either because of overage charges or overpaying for unused services. Their automated "Cell Phone Saver" works for AT&T Wireless, , Verizon Wireless Sprint (and Nextel), T-Mobile and U.S. Cellular customers.

That study found that the average user could save $662 over the typical two-year cell phone contract from unused, paid minutes and text messages.

Visit www.myvalidas.com for find out how much you can save.


We Welcome Our Newest Clients!

We're proud to introduce the latest group of businesses who, thanks to your referrals, have chosen GrowthForce to help the get more accurate, timely financial information.

Allergy and Asthma Associates
Bay Ridge Christian College
Conroes Americas
CSI Software
Culture Map Czech Center Museum Houston
DSPCon
Earthstone Texas
Electro Acoustics Video
Equisales Associates
GreenPearl.com
M.A. Associates
Nereus Capital
Online Marketing Connect
On-Target Marketing
Optimized Now
Rio Marine
The Compliance Alliance
The Gustafson Group
The Weston Group
Tomagwa Healthcare Ministries
Trelligence
Vicon Equipment


Vistage Tip – How to Create a Great Blog

Every month we share one of the many tips we get as a member of Vistage. Since we're launching our own blog, this month we'll share what Vistage teaches about how to create a great blog. There's no one secret to a creating a great blog that promotes your brand and makes your customer more loyal. Click here for 10 Tips for Creating an Engaging Blog.

Vistage is the world's largest CEO peer group made up of CEOs who help each another make better decisions, achieve better results for their businesses and enhance their lives. They collaborate over the Web, receive one-on-one coaching, attend peer group monthly meetings, tap into a vast online resource library and learn from expert speakers. Click here to visit the website for information about Vistage.


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call 281-358-2007 or visit our website at GrowthForce.com. *GrowthForce is not a CPA firm.

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